Title: Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator: Jmaes Ransome
Genre: Fiction
Sub genre: picture book
publishing date: 1993
publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Summary: Clara is seperated from her mother while working on a plantation. She is a seamstress who just so happens to like to quilt. One day her aunt tells her about the route to freedom, the Underground Railroad. Clara gets so excited she decides to make a secret quilt with a hidden map to the land of freedom.
I would use this book in the classroom to introduce the underground railroad with a history unit. At the end of the lesson the students will draw their own map to get to freedom with iron on transfer crayons. I will then iron them onto a quilt I make with large white squares that will have all the students' maps on them. The quilt will go for display in the hallway.
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